The Truck Driver – Paranormal Nightshift Story – Episode 65

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Welcome to Paranormal Night
Shift, your home for all things

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that go bump in the dark and
your fan stories told here.

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A story comes from a long time
fan and listener of the show,

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Steve.
When I get certain people who

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tell me paranormal stories, I
always want to listen.

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Steve, as far as I know and as
far as I’ve always known, has

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been a very straight shooter.
So I was very surprised that he

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had a paranormal story that he
wanted to send in.

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I’ve been a truck driver most of
my life, mostly overnight rural

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routes, nothing coast to coast,
never wanted to go that far.

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But during COVID we were short
staffed and work was kind of

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hard to come by.
So I started picking up a couple

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different shifts, ones that took
me places I hadn’t been before,

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but still nothing too terribly
far away from home, just an

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overnight trip and back.
I had picked up this route for

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this little warehouse out in the
middle of nowhere, probably 5

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miles off the main road.
Just a quick pull in hub, load

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your trailer and go kind of
thing.

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I got there at 10:30 at night
and there was a older gentleman

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and a young guy loading their
trailer.

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It was a old truck.
I thought, you know, owner

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operators sometimes have to hold
on for equipment for a long

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time, but this was like a 1970s
that that clamshell hood.

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I remembered it just going Who
still drives that?

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And man, he must have taken so
much care of this truck for it

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to be able to last this long.
But that was neither here or

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there.
They loaded their stuff and you

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know, then it was my turn.
I got on the lift, loaded my

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stuff, watched them take off,
and I took off.

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I didn’t think anything about
it.

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Couple days later, I picked up
another route that I wasn’t

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really familiar with, 1015 miles
off the normal Rd.

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Same little scenario, little
warehouse, little hub had some

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stuff for us to pick up at
night.

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I got there and to my surprise,
hey, there’s that truck again.

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The old man and what I assumed
is his son, they were loading

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everything up.
Now this hub was a lot different

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than the last one.
See, this is one of those ones

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where they just tag it for you
during day shift and there’s

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nobody there at night.
Just a little warehouse.

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You load your stuff and you go.
The old man waved at me and

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said, hey, good to see you.
Yeah, we’re finishing up.

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We’ll we’ll be on our way in
just a couple minutes.

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They loaded up and it was my
turn to load.

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I was looking for the forklift.
I mean, his son had driven into

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the building.
He had seen me, knew that I

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needed it.
But he driven into the building

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and I never saw his son come up.
I thought to myself, where where

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did he go?
But their old 70s model

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clamshell hood truck just took
off.

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I loaded my stuff and just
thought, where’d the guy go and

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why didn’t they say anything?
They were so talkative just a

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couple minutes ago.
I’m here alone in the dark,

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loading my stuff with nothing
but my headlights, and I get a

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eerie feeling.
I get my stuff loaded, get back

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in the truck, and I go, I tell
you all these minor details

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because certain things stick out
to you.

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This truck, I mean, the thing
purred like a champ.

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They were using it to haul
pretty heavy loads and they

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would have had to take care of
it.

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There was something about this
truck.

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Fast forward till after COVID, I
went back on my regular route.

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Still working night shift, but
back to what I had normally been

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doing.
I got a call that I needed to go

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pick up something from one of
these warehouses that I went to

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during COVID.
It was going to pay me an extra

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$100 that night, so I said
absolutely, let’s do it.

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I pull up and sure enough,
there’s the same truck with the

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old man and the sun loading
everything up.

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Same warehouse as the second
time I saw them.

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Hey, we’ll finish up in just a
second.

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And the same thing happened.
They loaded up.

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Where’s the fork trick?
Where?

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Where’d the sun go?
It just vanished.

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I go in there again, just like
the second time.

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Go in there and it’s the fork
trucks.

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There key’s sitting in it and
the truck just takes off.

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So weird.
It was like having the exact

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same conversation with this guy
that I just had with them.

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It felt like a deja vu moment.
I load up and I get to drive it

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on my route.
This time I’m headed in a

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different direction, actually
the same direction that the

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weird truck went down, but that
route takes you over this one

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lane.
Bridge truckers don’t like going

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over these things because they
never feel super sturdy, and

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when you’re carrying a heavy
load, it definitely doesn’t feel

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good.
But it was the quickest way to

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get where I needed to go.
I get over the bridge and I see

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it there in the little lake is
is the truck.

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It’s the truck, man.
These guys, they’ve run off the

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road.
Something’s wrong.

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Pull over.
I get out of my truck.

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I run down to the little lake.
I call dispatch for help.

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And and and there’s no truck.
There’s nothing there.

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I know what I saw.
There’s no truck.

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There’s nothing there It it gave
me the creeps.

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I I didn’t know what to do.
I just saw this truck.

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I called dispatch.
I waited for people but there

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was there was no truck.
They all just kind of thought I

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was crazy.
That night I had to start doing

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my own research.
Something something was weird.

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I pulled up a news article and
it still scares me to death.

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Today when I think about it, I
saw the picture.

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There’s a picture of a crash.
A father and son trucking team

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had went off the road in the
early 70s.

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The exact same people I’ve been
seeing and I knew because the

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picture in the paper had the
father and the son and that

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truck.
I don’t know if it was a time

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loop.
I don’t know if it was a

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warning.
I don’t know if they were just

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making their final delivery, but
I know that I’ve not seen them

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again after that night.
It’s like I had to go through

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their route like they’re
constantly going through the

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same thing that took them away
in the 1st place.

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Either way, thank you for
sharing my story.